On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:09:25AM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 05-Jul-06, at 1:47 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > >On 05/07/06 01:07 +0530, Steven Joseph wrote: > >>Hi , > >> > >>I'd be more than happy to volunteer for this, I have not used > >>these tools but > >>i have sound knowledge of the ubuntu system. > >> > >Please stop top posting. I suspect though that someone with more > >experience in those tools would be better in this particular case. > >A Scribus/GIMP expert would be more suited to answer questions than an > >Ubuntu expert (since this is going to be a rather distro independent > >issue). > > and although i hate to rain on the parade, it is going to be a hell > of a job convincing journalists that gimp, inkscape, scribus are the > 'equivalent' of quark express, corel draw, adobe illustrator ...
I have done such demonstrations. I never try to tell them that gimp, inkscape are equivalent of the stuff mentioned above. How can a free software application be ever treated equavalent to a propreiary software. The entire perception is misleading if we turn the discussion like this. This will only make the journalists continue to look at FSM as a technological alternative. So the objective of this event should not be merely be about technology per se. At the same time, let me warn that GIMP is not for print industry. But it can be used profitably for newspaper since the resolutions required are not very high. However, currently since newspapers are increasingly graphics oriented they should move to cinepaint, which works exactly like GIMP but has color separations, and support for high resolution support needed for print industry. As far as inkscape is concerned, it beats illustrator and corel draw in producing SVG images a W3C standard for 2D vector graphics. Though it also has features, and is best GUI I have seen in any free software application so far, while talking about them we should never forget to tell them that its use is recommended since it produces an ecoding of the document in an open standard so that it works in all applications. PDF support in inkscape is also very impressive. i dont have sufficient expertise to comment on scribus. Nagarjuna -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
